Author Archives: Tayeb

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About Tayeb

Engineer by training, with long-standing experience in technology, systems, and critical infrastructure. Writes occasionally about engineering, interfaces, and the practice of careful reasoning.

Internet Control of a Labview VI (Part II)

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Tayeb

In part I we have built a simple VI that controls a LED, switching it on or off through a virtual pressure button. We will now show step by step how to launch the application in the Internet and control … Continue reading →

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Internet Control of a Labview VI (Part I)

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Tayeb

Introduction Labview from National Instruments (NI) is build upon a purely graphical, general-purpose programming language, G, with extensive libraries of functions, an integral compiler and debugging, and an application builder for stand-alone applications. The concept of VIs (Virtual Instruments), invented … Continue reading →

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Access Control with RFID Tags

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Tayeb

Introduction It is quite easy to read IDs of RFID tags, using Parallax’s serial or USB RFID card reader. If you have two RFID cards at least, and of course Parallax RFID reader, you can set up, without hassle, the … Continue reading →

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Bluemote – remote control of a 8051 robot with bluetooth

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Tayeb

About the author: Pedro Vicente, 21 years old,  is a 3rd year Electrical Engineering student at Institutto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal. During the Summer of 2010 spent a month at ALIATRON as a trainee, when among other projects did … Continue reading →

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Controlling a robot with bluetooth-enabled cell phone

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Tayeb

Tested on Nokia N97 and Blackberry Bold 9700. Introduction After having recently designed a virtual gamepad to control a robot, making use of a serial bluetooth device, I thought why not do the same with a cell phone. My Nokia N97 … Continue reading →

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Bluemote – A Virtual Gamepad for Bluetooth Control of a Robot

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Tayeb

This application was born after a student trainee, Pedro Vicente, spent his Summer at my company Aliatron and did a technical project with a 8051-based robot “Robo-51” from Inex . Pedro has already published here in this blog, his work that is based on … Continue reading →

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Disk and PC Swap Without Reinstalling Windows

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Tayeb

The objectives I wanted to move my Windows and all other software m my old PC to a new one, with new motherboard and everything else. I just did not want to reinstall Windows, and all of other software, so … Continue reading →

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Coding in PHP a Hijri-Gregorian Calendar

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Tayeb

Why a Hijri-Gregorian calendar: Muslims follow a lunar calendar, named Hijri calendar. Hijra means “migration” in arabic. The muslim lunar calendar starts with the migration of the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, from Mecca to Medina. The actual muslim hijri … Continue reading →

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POV – Persistence of Vision

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Tayeb

Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina. A class of display device described as “POV” is one that composes an image by displaying … Continue reading →

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Why the Name Redacacia for this Blog?

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Tayeb

If asked why the name redacacia for my blog, of course I will need to give some explanation. It is really filled with symbolism, as I am firm believer in sharing knowledge, that it doesn’t belong to me, its real owner … Continue reading →

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